What is it about Steak Knives?

…and another thing, why would you need two sets? If I was one of the next 50 people to call in with my credit card details, they will send me, not one, but two sets of beautifully crafted steak knives… well there a challenge I thought to myself so I rang

The nice girl on the other end wasn’t very obliging; I thought it was a great idea… “So instead of giving me two sets of these quality crafted steak knives…”

“Ah that’s beautifully crafted, the quality is in the blade” she broke in

(What! Where did that come from? Oh well…)

“Well what I was thinking is that as I only need one set and you are offering two…”

“We are offering the second set FREE if you buy the first set using your credit card”

(That’s even better, I thought, I’ll take the second set then… but I used different words when I spoke…)

Yes I understand that, but I only need one set” I politely stated

“That’s $69.95, what credit card do you want to put it on”

“Well yours will do fine” I replied, tongue in cheek

“heh heh”

(I could tell she was in no mood for my jokes)

“What I was actually ringing about was, as I didn’t need two sets, maybe you could give me one set for half price?” My charm would surely get a further 10% discount.